1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 400 500 100 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Vocabulary Needs Energy Flow Environmental Impact 300

2. Question Column 1-100 What is the best thing to do with a used plastic bottle?

3. Answer Column 1-100 Recycle or Reuse it!

4. Question Column 1-200 It is important to recycle nonrenewable resources because they are_________?

5. Answer Column 1-200 Limited

6. Question Column 1-300 Define and list 2 examples of nonrenewable resources?

7. Answer Column 1-300 Resources that can not be replenished (grown again) in your lifetime. Examples : oil, coal, natural gas, iron

8. Question Column 1-400 Define and give 2 examples of renewable resources.

9. Answer Column 1-400 Resources that can be replaced or grown again. Examples: Trees, fish

10. Question Column 1-500 Why is it important to recycle nonrenewable resources?

11. Answer Column 1-500 Once they are used up we can’t replace them.

12. Question Column 2-100 Define a food chain.

13. Answer Column 2-100 The path of energy in food from one organism to another.

14. Question Column 2-200 Give a synonym for detrimental.

15. Answer Column 2-200 Bad, harmful

16. Question Column 2-300 Give a synonym for the word beneficial.

17. Answer Column 2-300 Good, helpful

18. Question Column 2-400 Define and draw a food web.

19. Answer Column 2-400 Overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

20. Question Column 2-500 Define carrying capacity and name one thing that limits it.

21. Answer Column 2-500 The number of living things that any area of land or water can support at one time. It can be limited by the amount of water, food, shelter, or space.

22. Question Column 3-100 Name four out of the six basic needs

23. Answer Column 3-100 Food, water, air, waste disposal, shelter, space

24. Question Column 3-200 Name a need that an alien species would provide an ecosystem.

25. Answer Column 3-200 It provides food.

26. Question Column 3-300 Does there have to be more predators or more prey in a relationship and why?

27. Answer Column 3-300 There must be more prey because the predator uses more energy and therefore needs more energy than one prey can provide.

28. Question Column 3-400 Photosynthesis changes light energy into what kind of energy?

29. Answer Column 3-400 Chemical energy

30. Question Column 3-500 Name 2 adaptations the cactus has that lets it meet its need of water.

31. Answer Column 3-500 Shallow roots, spongy stem, thorns, etc.

32. Question Column 4-100 What type of organism is found first in a food chain?

33. Answer Column 4-100 Producer

34. Question Column 4-200 What way do the arrows point in a food chain?

35. Answer Column 4-200 The energy flows to the eater.

36. Question Column 4-300 Create a food chain with these organisms: snake, grass, frog, grasshopper.

37. Answer Column 4-300 Grass to grasshopper to frog to snake

38. Question Column 4-400 What level of an energy pyramid has the most energy?

39. Answer Column 4-400 Bottom

40. Question Column 4-500 What part of the food chain gets its energy directly from the sun?

41. Answer Column 4-500 Plants

42. Question Column 5-100 Name a beneficial and a detrimental effect if rabbits were brought into an ecosystem that doesn’t normally have rabbits.

43. Answer Column 5-100

44. Question Column 5-200 Tell one way an earthworm can have a beneficial effect on its environment.

45. Answer Column 5-200 Aerates the soil, puts nutrients (nitrogen) back into the soil, provides bait for fishermen, etc.

46. Question Column 5-300 Tell one way a beaver can have a detrimental effect on its environment.

47. Answer Column 5-300 Destroys habitat or food of other animals when it takes down trees.

48. Question Column 5-400 If a farmer were to use a pesticide on his crop, what are two detrimental effects that might happen to the environment?

49. Answer Column 5-400 1.)Herbivores might ingest the poisons and 2.) the poison would get passes through the food chain.

50. Question Column 5-500 If trees were cut down to make space for a new shopping center, how would this affect the deer population and why.

51. Answer Column 5-500 The population would decrease because the deer would not be able to meet their needs of food or shelter.